Encouraging Employees to Speak Up
Due to our global presence, we recognize that laws, regulations, business practices, and customs can vary greatly from one country to the next. If a situation arises where our Code, our policies, or the laws of any country are in conflict, we encourage our employees to seek guidance. In our Code training, and in all live training sessions, employees are reminded that whenever they have a concern, they have multiple avenues to raise their concerns in a manner most comfortable to them. Those avenues include their direct supervisor, their local human resources partner, their local compliance manager, or the Dover Law Department or compliance team.
In addition, we maintain a Global Hotline that can be used by any person to report issues or concerns relating to our standards of business ethics and compliance, and to do so anonymously if they so choose (unless prohibited by local law). This hotline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in 17 different languages, and its availability is communicated to our employees through the Code, in live and online training sessions, in our quarterly compliance newsletter, and through posters that are displayed at every Dover facility.